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For Immediate Release: September 22, 1976

George E. Keller, an enrolled member of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe, has been appointed Superintendent of the Bureau of Indian Affairs' Rosebud, South Dakota Agency.

Keller has been the Community Services Officer at the agency the past four years.

Keller is a graduate of the Chadron State Teachers College, Chadron, Nebraska and has a Masters degree in education from South Dakota State University.

He was Principal of the Ewing Public School, Ewing, Nebraska for six years before coming to BIA in 1963 as a Guidance Supervisor for the Flandreau School and Rosebud Agency. He later served as Principal at the pierre Agency and Education Program Administrator at the Lower Brule Agency. Keller, 45, is a Rosebud native.